NCLEX in 5 days- any help would be great!!

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Hello All-

I'm taking the NCLEX-RN in 5 days & I'm trying to think of what the best study plan for the next few days should be. I have been reviewing Hurst lectures, Kaplan questions & Saunders questions. So far I have done 1500 questions, about 200+ a day- it should put me at 2,000+ by the big day. I'm looking for alternative format questions- does anyone know a good website/book for those?

Any tips, prayers, mnemonics or study plans would help! Congrats to all those who have passed & good luck to all those who are taking it soon!

Thanks & God Bless! :)

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Hi Faith0203,

Good luck! I recommend Lippencott's NCLEX-RN New-Format Questions Third Edition. It has 500 questions of all types and is $26.95.

My4Girls

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At five days out you should essentially be ready, polishing up facts here and there. Relax the day before. Wishing you good luck.

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Specializes in Surgical, Critical Care, LTC & SAR.

I agree...relax in the last days. I would review labs and maybe go over the "rules" of prioritization, delegation and precaution rules (contact/droplet/etc.).

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Thanks for your replies & well wishes! It's hard to relax with such a HUGE test coming up. I essentially feel prepared, but I'm learning random facts everyday- which I'm hoping will help during the test.

I've been reading various posts & it seems as if Safety Precautions is a big part of the test, so I'm definitely going to be reviewing that. In the meantime, I'll try to relax & just take it all in. I'll let you know how it goes! =)

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Specializes in One day CCU maybe!.

Do you know what your pass rate is for you school?

The reason I ask, is because if you guys have 100% pass rate, then try not to worry so much. Your faculty prepared you well for the NCLEX-RN. Don't sell them short. :o My school has a 100% pass rate for the last five semesters and so I did about 800 questions combined of the NCLEX 3500 and 4000. I took a few ATI exams that I had taken in the past too. Which you can get the log in ID's and passwords online by just googling them. Once you start taking the questions and getting the majority right, you will do well. I absolutely refused to take a Kaplan/ATI course or buy another book. I knew my teachers taught us well so I relied on that and I passed (81 questions). Most of my class passed with 75 questions.

If your class has a decent pass rate (like in the 90's) I would say stick with what you already have. But if your class has a bad pass rate (below 90%) I'd say check out Saunders review. I've heard good things about it. I don't know from personal experience but all of my classmates that passed that used additional study material used Saunders. There are several of us though that just relied on 3500 and 4000 questions and did fine!

Our test taking motto is: ABC's and Maslow first.

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